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Azimuth: A Historical Perspective (Part One)

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AZIMUTH: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE (PART ONE) (Really late release from Fdev)​

23 JUN 3308
Beginning a multi-part overview of historical events surrounding Azimuth Biochemicals and its connection to the mysterious Salvation.

On the 29th of October 3306, an abandoned megaship named the Adamastor arrived in the Chukchan system, after travelling at sublight speeds for nearly 200 years. At the time, no one could have foreseen the wide-ranging consequences that would arise from unlocking the secrets of this ghost ship.

Investigations revealed that it had been owned by a little-known and long-defunct corporation called Azimuth Biochemicals. The derelict’s journey was traced to the previously unexplored Coalsack Nebula, where the Adamastor had collected the survivors of a planetary survey team from the Musca Dark Region PJ-P b6-1 system.

Back in 3111, these geologists had encountered something terrifying and completely unknown: the first recorded instance of contact with the Thargoids. According to team leader Professor Carver, whose final log was discovered on HIP 69200 1 B, a recovered alien artefact caused equipment malfunctions and delusions among the crew. The damaged Adamastor was abandoned, to finally return home on autopilot two centuries later.

Further exploration of the Coalsack Nebula uncovered nothing more, but did lead to the detection of new barnacle sites. The Alliance wasted no time in harvesting these for meta alloys, followed by a Sirius Corporation project to terraform ammonia worlds. A resurgence of attacks from Thargoid vessels followed, suggesting that the alien species was as territorial as ever.

In April 3307, the Adamastor began receiving a long-range encrypted signal. A decryption key for this was provided by an anonymous source who identified himself only as ‘Salvation’. Tracking the signal led to the wreck of the Hesperus, the Adamastor’s sister ship. This had disappeared in 3113 and was now drifting in the Perseus Dark Region KC-V c2-2 system.

The distress call had been triggered by a dredger occupied by the nomadic Scriveners Clan, who had salvaged the Hesperus’s data drives. Messages leaked from the dredger revealed how the Hesperus had been taken over by sleeper agents from Pharmasapien, the corporate rivals of Azimuth Biochemicals. This resulted in the deaths of all except a scientific team, who had escaped aboard a secondary craft.

Two months later, the enigmatic Salvation asked pilots to track down the Hesperus’s signal beacons to find those missing Azimuth crew members. The secondary craft, named Proteus, was subsequently discovered on a moon in the Trapezium Sector YU-X c1-2 system. Its crew had transformed it into a research facility, to study relics from a nearby ancient battleground between the Guardian and Thargoid races.

The security officer’s log told of Azimuth’s real purpose: locate non-human technology and weaponise it for the military market. The scientists had conducted dangerous experiments on Guardian crystals, accidentally triggering a radiation surge which wiped them all out.

It seemed that Azimuth’s story ended there, nearly 200 years ago. But the fate of the Proteus would have enormous repercussions for the future of the galaxy.

(Only a repeat/ catch up..)
 
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Frontline currently - somewhat unwillingly - has the contract to operate the ex-Aegis support carriers. So maybe we're headed for some sort of fight over T Tauri after all?

Anything unusual in the journal for that base?
 
Frontline currently - somewhat unwillingly - has the contract to operate the ex-Aegis support carriers. So maybe we're headed for some sort of fight over T Tauri after all?

Anything unusual in the journal for that base?
Not that I can see 🤷‍♂️

{ "timestamp":"2022-06-23T21:10:16Z", "event":"Docked", "StationName":"Segzdavicius Extraction Platform", "StationType":"OnFootSettlement", "Taxi":false, "Multicrew":false, "StarSystem":"T Tauri", "SystemAddress":182276016435, "MarketID":3863881472, "StationFaction":{ "Name":"Frontline Solutions" }, "StationGovernment":"$government_Corporate;", "StationGovernment_Localised":"Corporate", "StationServices":[ "dock", "autodock", "commodities", "contacts", "missions", "refuel", "repair", "engineer", "missionsgenerated", "flightcontroller", "stationoperations", "searchrescue", "stationMenu" ], "StationEconomy":"$economy_Extraction;", "StationEconomy_Localised":"Extraction", "StationEconomies":[ { "Name":"$economy_Extraction;", "Name_Localised":"Extraction", "Proportion":1.000000 } ], "DistFromStarLS":1640.935883, "Wanted":true, "ActiveFine":true, "LandingPads":{ "Small":1, "Medium":0, "Large":1 } }

I might see if I can use trade to get allied - just need to get rid of this bounty after I killed them all :oops:

Edit: And thanks for the hint about Frontline - I knew they'd been mentioned (y) https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/62613fa723f75c41da483fd4
 
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That settlement name sounds familiar to me, I think I fought there back when Admiral Tanner (Aegis Defense) went to war with Taurus Mining Ventures. Which may explain the name - if Aegis won the most battles at that settlement they would have taken control of it, then FDEV simply renamed the faction to Frontline...
 
That settlement name sounds familiar to me, I think I fought there back when Admiral Tanner (Aegis Defense) went to war with Taurus Mining Ventures. Which may explain the name - if Aegis won the most battles at that settlement they would have taken control of it, then FDEV simply renamed the faction to Frontline...
Possible, though Aegis Defense on the megaships was a different faction to Tanner's 'Aegis Defence '.
 
I looked around in the Frontline Solutions settlement a bit after repping up to allied in hopes there's a mission giver guy there, but found nothing after several quick relogs - it is a pretty big settlement though so it's possible I missed it or they were inside a building without windows or a secure area.
 
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